Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes
Change is the essence of life; change is the great challenge, the great constant. Change is the ultimate teller of tales.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.
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For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.
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You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.
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I can have an androgynous quality.
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I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
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If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.
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The story wrote quickly. I called it 'Where You're From,' and I sent it out, as I had numerous other stories over the years. Except this time I got a letter back saying that it would be published. Someone out there had liked the story. I was thirty-one years old.
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I typically get 7 to 8 hours, but I'm a 12-plus-hour sleeper. I need to go into hibernation once a week to refuel.
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Change is the essence of life; change is the great challenge, the great constant. Change is the ultimate teller of tales.
